What's the difference between cham and chap?

Cham


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To chew.
  • (n.) The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ronny Cham, who represented Miss Hawkins in court, said she was relieved to be returning home.
  • (2) A distinct pool of liver ferritin has been described in man, guinea pigs and rats [Cham, Roeser, Nikles & Ridgway (1986) Clin.
  • (3) Walking the circular viewing deck, visitors start with horrific scenes from the Cham War between the Khmers and the Vietnamese before moving on to the construction of the famous Bayon Temple and ending with the daily life of Khmers.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Defence lawyer Ronny Cham Cham pleaded for leniency: “Your honour, they were ignorant of the culture, tradition and belief of the local people … including the people of Sabah and Malaysia … This is a group of a young generation … who have more freedom and liberty to express their thoughts and ideas.” Cham said the four stripped as they were “challenging one another to stand the cold of the mountain, to stand the temperature, which was near zero degrees”.
  • (5) Kolo Cham grows sorghum and corn near the Baro river, a 30-minute walk from his family home at Karmi.
  • (6) Sheikh Tayeb Mustapha Cham, imam and founder of the Taiba Welfare Foundation, said some imams still resisted condemning FGM, but religious leaders had a responsibly to speak out.
  • (7) Pharmacological activities of Eschscholtzia californica Cham.
  • (8) "Nobody would believe that such a luxury car would come to Cambodia," said the minister for industry and handcrafts, Cham Prasidh, who was present for the announcement.
  • (9) A technique described by Cham and Knowles allows the extraction of plasma phospholipides, triglycerides, cholesterol and free fatty acids without denaturing the proteins.
  • (10) Hawkins’s defence lawyer, Ronny Cham, said: “This is a happy ending to the whole episode.” He said he expected all four tourists to be deported after they had paid the fines.

Chap


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  • (v. t.) To strike; to beat.
  • (v. i.) To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
  • (v. i.) To strike; to knock; to rap.
  • (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  • (n.) A division; a breach, as in a party.
  • (n.) A blow; a rap.
  • (n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
  • (n.) One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
  • (n.) A buyer; a chapman.
  • (n.) A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
  • (v. i.) To bargain; to buy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For this, different detergents such as Triton X-100, CHAPS and n-octyl beta-D glucopyranoside were tested at various concentrations, durations and temperatures of incubation.
  • (2) At detergent concentrations above their critical micelle concentrations, C12E8 was also much more effective than CHAPS, suggesting that micelles are not involved.
  • (3) That’s plain wrong, has been for decades, and a clever chap like Nelson should know it.
  • (4) End-on views of G on virus clearly showed triangles consisting of three dots indicating the trimeric nature of native G. End-on views of CHAPS-isolated G showed very similar triangles confirming that, using this detergent, G was solubilized in its native trimeric structure.
  • (5) Previous investigations (El Mestikawy et al., J Neurochem 51: 1031-1040, 1988) have shown that 5-HT1A binding sites (R[5-HT1A]) solubilized by CHAPS from rat hippocampal membranes can be modulated by guanine nucleotides, as expected from their solubilization together with associated G regulatory proteins (G).
  • (6) Initially, peripheral polypeptides were removed from apically enriched vesicles by washing with alkaline buffer (pH 10.8) containing 2 mM CHAPS.
  • (7) The enzymes could be solubilized from the membrane fractions using CHAPS, and the detergent-soluble activity partially restored by addition of phospholipids.
  • (8) Furthermore, the effects of detergents other than CHAPS on hydrodynamic parameters and on [3H]TCDD binding to the receptor were studied.
  • (9) Cation exchange chromatography on carboxymethylcellulose-Sephadex with a starting buffer of pH 5 containing 2 mM CHAPS plus 20 mM beta-OG, followed by a pH 8 buffer, showed a very small OD peak at the void volume (P) and a second peak with about 95% of the protein (E).
  • (10) The binding of CHAPS to the SynChropak Propyl stationary phase and its effects on retention were found to be readily reversible.
  • (11) Leukotriene C4 (LTC4) synthase was solubilized from the microsomes of guinea-pig lung by the new procedures of a combination of 3-[3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio)-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS), digitonin and KCl.
  • (12) These treatments also caused an altered distribution of phosphorylated integrin between the CHAPS soluble and insoluble fractions.
  • (13) The ryanodine receptor protein of sheep cardiac muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes functions as a ligand-regulated ion channel following solubilization with the zwitterionic detergent CHAPS (3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)-dimethylammonio]-1- propane sulphonate); purification by density gradient centrifugation, reconstitution into proteo-liposomes and incorporation into planar phospholipid bilayers.
  • (14) The chap who assessed my brother was a physiotherapist,” she said.
  • (15) The augmentation of tone was endothelium-dependent as it did not occur following functional destruction of the endothelium by perfusion of the vascular bed with the detergent CHAPS (0.3%) for 150s.
  • (16) Isoelectric focusing in 2% 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS) without urea gives good results as does 2% Nonidet-P40 with 8 M urea.
  • (17) Sodium nitroprusside was approximately 200 times less potent than acetylcholine in the presence of the endothelium and was the only vasorelaxant to be active after destruction of the endothelium by perfusion with 0.3% CHAPS; in the absence of the endothelium it was 3.7 times more potent as a vasodilator than in its presence.
  • (18) Among three detergents tested, CHAPS is the best in preserving hormonal binding affinity and specificity.
  • (19) In addition, the 44% peak became increasingly resistant to the inhibitory effect of CHAPS.
  • (20) Optimal yield was obtained by pretreatment of whole M. pneumoniae cells with buffer containing 1% Chaps and subsequent extraction with octylglucosid at a detergent to protein ratio of 5 and at octylglycoside concentrations between 1.5 and 2%.